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The Two Types of Sunnah

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Hawzah News Agency- Shaykh al-Saduq narrated that his father narrated from Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from al-Nawfali, from al-Sakooni, from Imam Sadiq (pbuh), from his father, from his ancestors, from Imam Ali (pbuh), that he said:

السُّنَّهُ سُنَّتَانِ سُنَّهٌ فِی فَرِیضَهٍ الْأَخْذُ بِهَا هُدًی وَ تَرْکُهَا ضَلَالَهٌ وَ سُنَّهٌ فِی غَیْرِ فَرِیضَهٍ الْأَخْذُ بِهَا فَضِیلَهٌ وَ تَرْکُهَا غَیْرُ خَطِیئَهٍ.

The Sunnah (tradition) is of two kinds:

1.A Sunnah in an obligation—acting upon it is guidance, and leaving it is misguidance; and

2.A Sunnah other than obligatuions—acting upon it is a virtue, and leaving it is not a sin.

Al-Khisal,Book 3,Chapter 54

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